The Brothers of Gwynedd · Book 3
The Hounds of Sunset
- Published
- 1 January 1976
- Pages
- 340
- ISBN-13
- 9780333196588
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Hounds of Sunset (1976) matches its predecessor's 340 pages as Wales's struggle against the English crown continues, moving Edith Pargeter's quartet closer to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's death and the definitive English conquest under Edward I.
Its place in The Brothers of Gwynedd
The Hounds of Sunset is book 3 in the The Brothers of Gwynedd series. It follows The Dragon at Noonday. It is followed by Afterglow and Nightfall. See the full The Brothers of Gwynedd reading order.
Edith Pargeter's second major historical quartet, written under her own name rather than her Ellis Peters pen name, dramatizes the real thirteenth-century struggle of the Welsh princes of Gwynedd to hold Wales independent against the expanding power of the English crown. Narrated by Samson, a fictional clerk and confidant in the household of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the four novels — Sunrise in the West (1974), The Dragon at Noonday (1975), The Hounds of Sunset (1976) and Afterglow and Nightfall (1977) — trace the…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780333196588
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780747230298